Network Services Changes in Windows Server 2012

With each new version of the Windows Server operating system, Microsoft improves on the previous release. With Windows Server 2012, Microsoft maintains this tradition and has made a substantial improvement in DHCP services. Windows Server 2012 DHCP services now include a new type of service redundancy named DHCP failover. In the previous DHCP release included with Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft introduced a Split-Scope Wizard and a response delay that allowed DHCP administrators to enable redundancy, but some features such as reservations and active leases were still managed separately. Another option was and still is to deploy DHCP services on a failover cluster, but that adds on the complications ...

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